So, new Ace Attorney Fanfiction. I'll explain more in Author's Note, so in the mean time, enjoy!

Loving Miss Juniper Woods

Part 1

"What do you mean I'm oblivious?!"

Apollo has never considered himself oblivious.

Well, it would be extremely hard for him as a lawyer if he was oblivious.

Trying to point out contradictions, finding evidence and cornering witnesses would be extremely difficult for a oblivious person. One would question how the person would get an attorney's badge in the first place.

Apollo is always quick to notice the details and contradictions in the crimes and witness's testimony, and with the power of noticing habits in the witness using his bracelet, Apollo is always pointing out the contradictions at any point.

He is not an oblivious person.

Even outside of the Courtroom, Apollo has quick senses to see what is happening, and is quick to react.

The other day, while out with Trucy shopping for food for the Wright & Co. Law Offices, Apollo noticed that a man was about to sexually assault Trucy from behind, who was looking at some deals at a jewellery store, doing window shopping.

Apollo was quick to act, and punched the man, before calling the police.

Trucy had seen the man at the last second before he was about to do the crime, but Apollo intervened before she or the man did anything.

Along with Trucy's story of the events, plus some Camera footage from the store near the window, successfully jailed the man, and Apollo wasn't arrested for assaulting a man, ruling that he attacked the man to prevent a crime happening.

Although in the papers, it was only a small story, spanning a couple of weeks, Phoenix was extremely grateful to Apollo for saving Trucy.

Apollo remarked that Trucy felt like a sister to him and all he did was protect his family from harm.

You know the truth about Apollo and Trucy, so I'll skip this bit.

Apollo can also tell when something is wrong. Athena acted normal for a couple of days, but ever so often, Apollo felt a habit appearing, and she felt nervous because of that.

He couldn't get it out of her what she was thinking, so he went to Simon Blackquill to see if he knew anything about it.

Turns out Athena's mother, Metis Cykes' birthday was coming up soon, and Athena was probably depressed about it.

So, Apollo, along with Simon, went with Athena to Metis's grave on her birthday. Lit some incense candles, and let Athena and Simon have some time to think, while Apollo stands at a distance.

Apollo knows when someone is upset, and seeing someone that he cares about in pain hurts him.

Athena is like family to Apollo, and he hates seeing family in pain.

All of his friends, he cares very much about them, and would gladly defend them if they got into trouble.

So, after this, we can safely establish that Apollo is NOT oblivious.

But, why are we talking about this?

Well, the other day, there was a party, Apollo's in fact.

Usually, he would go out to town with Clay to have a good time on his birthday.

But ever since... the UR-1 Incident finally closing, and the Phantom caught, Apollo has been left minus a best friend.

So, the rest of Wright & Co. Law Offices decided to throw a party for Apollo, to cheer him up a bit.

They invited almost everyone that Apollo knew, from his clients like Vera Misham and Wocky Kitaki, to his other friends, like Solomon Starbuck and even Aura Blackquill (Simon managed to get permission from the Chief Prosecutor himself to let Aura out of prison just for the party.)

Athena even invited Juniper, Robin and Hugh from Themis.

So, the party commenced, with everyone having a good time (Apollo swears that he saw Simon pull a full grin.), some dancing was involved (Marlon Rimes and Sasha Buckler were having a dance off), food and drink to go around, apparently some dude named Larry turned up and spiked the punch with Alcohol, causing Phoenix to tell him off and others to mistake Larry as Solomon.

After a while, when Phoenix moved the punch to the kitchen, it was time for Apollo to open his presents from everyone else.

The presents were varied depending on the person who gave the present. Wocky, for example, gave Apollo a box filled with variates of small cakes from his family bakery, made by him and his father. Apollo thanked Wocky for the thought.

There were some presents that made Apollo emotional with happiness.

Vera, with the help of Solomon who both met with the help of Trucy, got an old photo of Clay and him made into a painting for Apollo, along with a letter from Clay the day before his death addressed to Apollo, which Solomon found while sorting out Clay's locker at the Space Station.

Yuri didn't give anything, but gave some information that the rocket for the next Space Mission is going to be named the Clay-T-1, which was more than enough for Apollo himself.

Robin was weeping over the painting, saying it's the best thing she's ever seen, and begged Vera to teach her to draw like that, with the said artist silent, as usual.

There were some other presents that Apollo was given, like an album by the Gavinners, ironically not given by Klavier but by Trucy, and the Rock God Prosecutor gave Apollo a box set of Doctor Who episodes and a camera.

Phoenix gave Apollo a new bike, since his old one was stolen during the UR-1 Incident re-opening, and Athena gave a book on astrology, but one of the most surprising gifts was from Juniper.

She gave Apollo a red scarf with a white outlining, to fit with his usual court appearance. It was clearly made with hard work, as Apollo felt the material was soft and stitched finely, something he smiled at.

He thanked Juniper for this, but noticed that she was blushing slightly, and was directing her gaze away from Apollo.

"Eh?" was the only thing on Apollo's mind as Juniper went to take her seat back down.

Afterwards, as the party continued into the late hours, Apollo was thinking about the little exchanged between him and Juniper with the present thing for about half an hour, thinking why Juniper acted like that, but then joined in for the rest of the party.

So, the party commenced once more, some people getting drunk due to them finding the spiked punch and drinking it. Trucy was one of them, though Phoenix managed to stop her before she went too far, and proceeded to kick Larry out.

So, around one o'clock in the morning, after Simon took Aura back to the prison around ten, many of the guests began to leave, and Apollo waited at the door to say thank you for coming and goodbye to the guests.

It was a good time, but when it came to Robin, Hugh and Juniper, the goodbyes became very strange for Apollo. For Robin, she yelled 'SSSSSEEEEE YOOOOUUUU LAAATTTTEEERRR!' to Apollo, and for Hugh, he simply nodded to Apollo with a confident smirk and proceeded to leave with Robin.

Juniper, however, simply murmured a goodbye to Apollo with a slight blush on her face and ran out of the Offices, without looking at Apollo, leaving the said attorney in red confused.

Once everyone had left the party, Apollo also began to leave, since Phoenix was closing up the offices for the next few hours, along with getting Trucy home to sleep, because she was partially drunk.

Apollo decided to leave most of his presents at the office for now, to pick it up in the morning, but took the scarf, the box of biscuits, the camera and his new bike home.

However, he won't be cycling right at the moment, since Athena is also drunk as well, and Simon asked earlier to take her home, which the said home isn't too far away from the office.

And this is where Apollo learns that other people think he's oblivious.

"Aaaaaapppooollllooo...!" slurs Athena, somewhat drunk, walking in the dark street, with the lights on. Apollo chuckles slightly, pushing the new bike along the street, walking towards Athena's house.

"What is it, Athena?" he asks, for another time, never getting tired of this silliness.

"Are...weeeeee there...yet?" Athena questions for the umpteenth time already, since leaving the Wright & Co Law Offices. Apollo shakes his head, still smiling.

"No, Athena, we're not."

"Awwww...!"

Apollo points his new camera to Athena, who's walking drunkenly. Athena and Trucy played a prank on him the other day, and this may be perfect time to exact a little payback on Athena, a recording of her drunk. This is SO going on YouTube!

"Aaaaaapppooollllooo...!"

"Yes, Athena?"

"Areee...weee...there...yet?!"

"No, Athena, we're not there yet."

"Awww...!"

Yep, so going on YouTube.

Athena notices the scarf that Apollo got round his neck, and stares at it drunkenly.

"Hey...where..." she slurs, going against a street lamp. "...did you get...that scarf?"

Apollo smiles, and tugs on it a little, looking at it with a relaxed look.

"I got it from Juniper, earlier. Don't you remember?"

"Not...reallllllllyyy..."

Apollo shook his head, sighing, trying to hold in laughter.

"Ya...know...it really...suits ya..."

Apollo looks up at Athena, raising an eyebrow while she is walking down the street.

"Really...?"

"It fits...with ya...could attract any girl..."

Apollo chuckles to himself, thinking Athena is messing round with him. Teasing is one of Athena's strong points, so Apollo decides to play along with Athena's drunken teasing.

"Huh. So, you think a girl would like me if I wore this scarf? Are you saying you like me, Athena?"

Athena frowns a little, then goes back into a drunken grin.

"Naaaaaahhhhh... I like...you...as friend... Besides,...I like...Simon...a lot..."

Apollo is glad he's recording this at the moment. He can almost taste that sweet payback right now!

"But...do you want... to know ….a secret?" Athena questions, walking up to Apollo, and put a hand on his shoulder.

"Sure, go ahead, Athena!"

Athena then puts a finger up to her mouth, to signal a quiet expression. "Shhh...You mustn't telllllll...you must not tell Apollo...!"

"But, Athena, I am Apollo!"

Athena frowns, if annoyed a little.

"Yeaahhh...sure...you are..." she remarks sarcastically. She then giggles a little.

"It's a big...secret... you mustn't tell...anyone!"

Apollo smirks a little, still recording.

"So, what is it?"

"J-Junie..."

Apollo frowns a little. "What about Juniper?"

"Junie...is in love with Apollo Justice!"

Apollo's eyes wide in shock.

"WHAT?!" he yells, Chords of Steel coming into practice, completely shocked on what Athena had just said to him.

This was completely new news to Apollo. I mean, he never expected Juniper to be in love with him! When did she? And why didn't he pick up earlier on this?!

This DOES explain Juniper's actions earlier, though...

"It's...shhhoooccckkkinnngg..., right?" Athena slurs again, in a drunken manner. "Don't...tell Apollo! He's too oblivious!"

Apollo blinks at this.

He has caught murderers, seen through lies, caught his former mentor on the charge of murder, had many weird case, including a Japanese demon, been through heartbreak of losing a best friend and another friend who's the best friend's mentor and the said mentor accused of the best friend's murder, through a bomb explosion (maybe that when Juniper began to like him that way?), accusing a co-worker of the best friend's murder, and catching a masked killer.

Through those times, not once he has been oblivious!

There is only one sentence to say about this.

"What do you mean I'm oblivious?!"

End of Part 1

So, author's note time.

I loved Duel Destines, and Juniper Woods became one of my favorite characters, along with the new ones in the game. I quickly began to love the pairing of her and Apollo, and I thought 'Hey! Maybe everyone else loves this shipping on Fan-Fiction!'. I was wrong, however, with all the Justicykes fans. I'm not bothered by that though, but I do believe there should be some more Junipolly.

So, this is how it's going down. The plot of this story starts around the end of Apollo's birthday, which I decided to be in 22nd March, which where I live, is the first official day of Spring, and will end at Juniper's birthday, which I decided should be the 30th August. The time between those two dates will be the storyline, which is about Apollo finding out Juniper's crush on him from (a drunk) Athena, who was suppose to keep it, and Apollo slowly returning the feelings through different encounters, and him thinking about it. There will be side pairings, though.

Here's the list of pairings:

Apollo and Juniper (MAIN)

Athena and Simon (SIDE)

Phoenix and Maya/Iris (Like both of them, can't decide so vague hints.)

Robin and Hugh (SIDE) (Dunno why. XD)

And others I might think of later. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Tell me what you think, and I'll see you guys on the next chapter!